End Game RN

End Game RN RN

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  1. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Greetings Baptized By Fire; Way off topic, just wanted to address your post. Just got home from one of our farms. Pregnant mare with an issue and expected due date this coming week. We are doing blood...

  2. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Hey Moseisley; I have yet to meet anyone posting as kind, caring ,compassionate and nonjudgemental like you. Keep up the good work!!! Leave politics out of this. We could trade barbs back and forth...

  3. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Baptized By Fire, thank you for your response. it proves that these events are the exception and not the rule. I agree, the vast majority of us are decent and kind, caring people, Uh, but not those...

  4. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    SShannon81, good to meet you! Don't personalize this. He was incoherent, frightened, and overwhelmed by his experience. There is no insult, no injury in his rant, especially considering what he went...

  5. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Where are the traditional, professional nurses? Many of these postings are disheartening to me as someone who loves and lives this profession 24/7. Sigh............................. Before I forget,...

  6. Glen Beck's hospital experience

    End Game RN replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Step back and look at this in a more objective way... The end of life patch is what got me. Someone probably frightened the bejesus out of him with this explanation of what may have been a fentanyl...

  7. Florida woman goes into hospital to have baby, leaves as a double amputee

    End Game RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like post partum sepsis. She became critically ill, requiring intensive care and supportive measures to save her life. Probably had high fevers, elevated wbcs, other abnormal labwork. perhaps...

  8. Is your facility warning staff for overtime, for missing lunch breaks or other?

    End Game RN replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, this has made it to our hospital this past year. Just clock in and out on time. Even if we've had a crazy day, I get everything done that I can, then come back to the unit after to finish...

  9. What's your favorite pair of nursing shoes?

    End Game RN replied to changeofpaceRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Barefoot and in my boot socks. I take my shoes off frequently while running around the unit..generally in my patient's room, all our ICU beds are good sized private rooms surrounded in glass...

  10. Would you become a nurse today if you could do it over again?

    End Game RN replied to marie-francoise's topic in General Nursing

    A resounding YES!!! I can not imagine what my life would have been had I not become a nurse. I was not forced into nursing because it was an acceptable profession for women. I have experienced the...

  11. How do you deal with lazy nurses??

    End Game RN replied to LouisianaNurse2006's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ..................Kill them to open up another FTE. Hopefully the replacement will work out. Way to much energy is wasted on this issue. If one on one discussion with the nurse in question fails to...

  12. It's sometimes hard being a nurse of color isn't it?

    End Game RN replied to Kanani_Ikike's topic in General Nursing

    O.k. let me regain my composure. Where the hell do you people live?:angryfire THANK GOD our institution definately does not have this problem. We are a HUGE University affiliated hospital, Level 1...

  13. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    End Game RN replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Actually I failed at being a serial killer, I kept resuscitating them. A light went off in my head, "study nursing, your a natural" So here I am. Hope this helps. Eeka End game

  14. Do Day Nurses Really Feel that Night Nurses Do Nothing All Night?

    End Game RN replied to Brita01's topic in General Nursing

    O.K. I am not speaking for any other unit or floor or service in our facility. Just the neuroscience where I have been forever, actually I am, along with just one other critical care RN (a brillant...

  15. Do patients/families that are hostile, rude affect your morale?

    End Game RN replied to smartynurse's topic in General Nursing

    TDub; Warning...superlong... What protocols?????????????????????????????????????????????????? I do what I am...I am what I do....I am a nurse. Good early morning from Miami, Florida. Uhmmmmm... How...

  16. If I Murder A Co-worker, How To Hide The Body??

    End Game RN replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Walk6miles ...down here, in South Florida, we have a saying (not in the general population) that goes something like this....."Gators get rid of evidence". Invite this individual down here for an...

  17. Do patients/families that are hostile, rude affect your morale?

    End Game RN replied to smartynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Hey everybody; this is my particular talent. I practice nursing in a multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual community with a large variety of religious practices. Needless to say, it is important to...

  18. write up

    End Game RN replied to ChristinaNcRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey ChristinaNcRN; having been a practicing RN in ICU (NSICU) for 27 years, I can tell you honestly that I too have had to be "written up". The difference is that if I found that I had done something...

  19. How do you get on with foreign nurses?

    End Game RN replied to letina's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Letina...I work in a multicultural environment and all that it implies. Many of our nurses are like you in that they studied and worked in their own countries, then want to expand their...

  20. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

    End Game RN replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

    I don't have children, but.....This is not a yes or no question... What I do have is the opportunity to influence nursing students and young people and a few older students in their late 20s and...